Problem with UTF-8 and GNUCash

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 13 17:46:54 EST 2006


You skip one important variable:  which version of gnucash?
gnucash 1.8, based on gtk-1, does not support utf8
gnucash 2.x, based on gtk-2, DOES support utf8.

I bet you're using gnucash 1.8 and not 2.0.3 (the most recent stable version)

-derek

Quoting Panagiotis Atmatzidis <p.atmatzidis at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I am running GNUCash in a FreeBSD-6.2-RC1 pc. I have installed GNOME as
> a DE. I use Greek el_GR.UTF8 locale, in order to have my applications in
> my native language. Everything works fine except GNUCash.
> The fonts are displayed weird. The look is similar with httpd pages that
> are in code ISO-8859-7 while you are browsing at them using 8859-1. I
> don't know if the idea is clear.. If no, I'll post a Screenshot.
>
> Anyway the text is not displayed correctly. Apparently GNUCash has
> broken utf-8 support.
>
> Were can I start looking?
>
> Is there a Greek translation available for GNUCash?
>
> Thank you.
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